Metropolis

A modern beamer theme

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Matthias Vogelgesang
March 14, 2016
Center for modern beamer themes

Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Titleformats
3. Elements
4. Conclusion

Introduction
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Metropolis

The metropolis theme is a Beamer theme with minimal visual noise

inspired by the hsrm Beamer Theme by Benjamin Weiss.
Enable the theme by loading
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{metropolis}
Note, that you have to have Mozilla's Fira Sans font and XeTeX
installed to enjoy this wonderful typography.

Sections

Sections group slides of the same topic

\section{Elements}
for which metropolis provides a nice progress indicator

Titleformats
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Metropolis titleformats

metropolis supports 4 different titleformats:

Regular
Smallcaps
allsmallcaps
ALLCAPS
They can either be set at once for every title type or individually.

Small caps

This frame uses the smallcaps titleformat.

Potential Problems
Be aware, that not every font supports small caps. If for example you
typeset your presentation with pdfTeX and the Computer Modern
Sans Serif font, every text in smallcaps will be typeset with the
Computer Modern Serif font instead.

all small caps

This frame uses the allsmallcaps titleformat.

Potential problems
As this titleformat also uses smallcaps you face the same problems
as with the smallcaps titleformat. Additionally this format can
cause some other problems. Please refer to the documentation if
you consider using it.
As a rule of thumb: Just use it for plaintext-only titles.

ALL CAPS

This frame uses the allcaps titleformat.

Potential Problems
This titleformat is not as problematic as the allsmallcaps format,
but basically suffers from the same deciencies. So please have a
look at the documentation if you want to use it.

Elements
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Typography

The theme provides sensible defaults to

\emph{emphasize} text, \alert{accent} parts
or show \textbf{bold} results.
becomes
The theme provides sensible defaults to emphasize text, accent
parts or show bold results.

Font feature test

Regular
Italic
SmallCaps
Bold
Bold Italic
Bold SmallCaps
Monospace
Monospace Italic
Monospace Bold
Monospace Bold Italic

Lists

Items

Enumerations

Milk

1. First,

Eggs

2. Second and

Potatos

3. Last.

Descriptions
PowerPoint Meeh.
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Animation

This is important

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Animation

This is important
Now this

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Animation

This is important
Now this
And now this

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Animation

This is really important

Now this
And now this

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Figures

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Figure 1: Rotated square from texample.net.

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Tables

Table 1: Largest cities in the world (source: Wikipedia)

City

Population

Mexico City
Shanghai
Peking
Istanbul

20,116,842
19,210,000
15,796,450
14,160,467

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Blocks

Three different block environments are pre-dened and may be

styled with an optional background color.
Default
Block content.

Default

Alert
Block content.

Alert

Example
Block content.

Example

Block content.

Block content.

Block content.

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Math

(
e = lim

1
1+
n

)n

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Line plots

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0.5

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Bar charts

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1.5

2.5

3.5

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Quotes

Veni, Vidi, Vici

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Frame footer

metropolis denes a custom beamer template to add a text to the

footer. It can be set via
\setbeamertemplate{frame footer}{My custom footer}

My custom footer

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References

Some references to showcase [allowframebreaks] [4, 2, 5, 1, 3]

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Conclusion
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Summary

Get the source of this theme and the demo presentation from
github.com/matze/mtheme
The theme itself is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Questions?

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Backup slides

Sometimes, it is useful to add slides at the end of your presentation

to refer to during audience questions.
The best way to do this is to include the appendixnumberbeamer
package in your preamble and call \appendix before your backup
slides.
metropolis will automatically turn off slide numbering and progress
bars for slides in the appendix.

References I
P. Erds.
A selection of problems and results in combinatorics.
In Recent trends in combinatorics (Matrahaza, 1995), pages 1--6.
Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1995.
R. Graham, D. Knuth, and O. Patashnik.
Concrete mathematics.
Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1989.
G. D. Greenwade.
The Comprehensive Tex Archive Network (CTAN).
TUGBoat, 14(3):342--351, 1993.
D. Knuth.
Two notes on notation.
Amer. Math. Monthly, 99:403--422, 1992.

References II

H. Simpson.
Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.
preprint (2003), available at
http://www.math.drofnats.edu/riemann.ps, 2003.